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UNIVERSITY  OF  GEORGIA 


MEMORIAL    EXERCISES 

IN  HONOR  OP 

ALUAVNI  WHO  FELL  IN  THE  EUROPEAN  WAR 

Alumni  Day,  dune  17th,  1919 


Entered  at  the  Post  Office  at  Athens,  on.,  as  Second  Class  Matter,  August  31, 1905. 
under  Act  or  Congress  of  July  18th.  1901.  lssu'  1  Monthly  by  the  University. 


Serial  No.  304 


ALUMNI  MEMORIAL  EXERCISES 


READING  OF  NAMES  OF  ALUMNI  FALLEN  IN  THE  GREAT  WAR 

By  T.  W.  Reed,  '88,  Registrar 

The  University  of  Georgia  has  endeavored  to  compile  a  complete 
and  correct  roster  of  her  gallant  boys  who  made  the  supreme  sac- 
rifice, and  on  this  occasion  expresses  the  hope  that  no  name  has 
been  omitted  from  the  list  of  her  immortal  dead  in  whose  memory 
the  services  of  today  are  held,  and  that  upon  her  service  flag  it  may 
not  be  necessary  to  place  a  single  additional  golden  star. 

Class  of  1880 

Frederick  Grady  Hodgson. 

Class  of  1887 

Rufus  Benjamin  Clarke. 

Class  of  1907 

Henry  Lee  Jewett  Williams 

Class  of  1908 

Clarence  Hull  Dobbs,  iS.  Guy  (Strickland. 

Class  of  1910 

James  Alpheus  Anderson  Eralibert  Talmadge   Miller 

Class  of  1912 

James  Allan   Etheridge  Roy  Edgar  Lanham 

Wilbur  Oglesby 

Class  of  191S 

Allen  Randolph  Fleming  Joseph  N.  Neel 

James  Thorpe  Rayle 

Class  of  1914 

Calvin  George  Walter  Hill  Levie 

Allen  Napoleon  Kieffer  Macon  Caldwell  Overton 

Paul  Thomas  Settle 

Class  of  1915 

Chester  Price  Adair  Covington  Drane  Jenkins 

Carl  P.  Goldsmith  Justus  Erwin  Owens 

Robert  Jenkins  Griffith  Wilbur   Stuart    Sewell 

Percival  Connally  Jones  Young  Hall  Smith 

Class  of  1916 

Henry  Warren  Brown,  Edwin  David  Shaw,  Trygve  J.  Tolnas. 


Class  of  1917 

Tom  Reed  Beazley  Yoel  Lyons  Jo»l 

Elliott  Muse  Braxton  Edmund  Brewer  Tate 

Howell  Burnett  Cobb  Marion  Footman  Wilson 

Beverly   Daniel   Evans  Hugh  Miller  Willett 

Class  of  1918 
Robert  James  'Cochran  John  Leon  Derrick 

Robert  H.  Leonard 

Class  of  1919 

Paul  Bryan  Minter. 

Brave  sons  of  Georgia,  loyal,  true,  faithful  to  every  duty,  who  in 
the  spirit  of  service  and  sacrifice  exemplified  the  teachings  of  their 
Alma  Mater;  who  measured  to  the  full  stature  of  royal  manhood 
and  laid  their  lives  upon  the  altar  of  liberty  in  order  that  all  men 
might  be  free  indeed;  who  illustrated  upon  the  ensanguined  bat- 
tlefields of  the  great  war  the  unsurpassed  valor  of  American  man- 
hood and  wove  around  the  khaki  uniform  of  the  American  soldier 
the  fadeless  glories  of  immortality;  in  their  honor  the  institution 
they  loved  so  well  holds  today  these  memorial  services,  with  pride 
in  their  achievements,  gratitude  for  their  services,  and  in  affection- 
ate memory  of  those  whose  blue  stars  on  our  service  flag  have 
mellowed  into  gold. 


MEMORIAL  ADDRESS 

Charles  Murphey  Candler,  Class  of  1877 

Gentlemen  of  the  Alumni  Society, 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

We  are  assembled  today  in  this  historic  temple  to  do  reverence 
to  the  memories  of  heroes  who  tho'  dead  still  live. 

I  wish  that  one  worthier  of  the  occasion  and  better  fitted  to  give 
expression  to  your  tribute  had  been  chosen. 

When  the  torch  of  war  was  lighted  in  the  Balkans  a  little  less 
than  five  years  ago,  we  of  this  country  reckoned  not  of  the  possi- 
bility of  the  conflagration  involving  us. 

iBut  for  some  irritating  incidents  with  an  almost  irresponsible 
neighbor  upon  our  southern  border,  we  had  no  quarrel  with  any 
nation  and  were  at  peace  with  the  world. 

'Confident  in  our  continental  isolation  and  in  our  freedom  from 
political  entanglements  of  any  character  with  the  nations  of  the 
world,  for  more  than  a  century  we  had  grown  great  and  continued 
happy  in  the  pursuit  of  our  national  purposes  and  the  attainment 
of  our  national  aspirations. 

We  had  established  the  most  powerful  Democracy  the  world  had 
ever  known  and  had  demonstrated  that  government  of  the  people, 
by  the  people  and  for  the  people  was  both  desirable  and  possible. 

But  in  our  national  thought  and  life  we  had  failed  of  the  realiza- 
tion of  a  great  truth  which  was  to  influence  our  destiny.  It  is  a 
divinely  enunciated  truth  that  no  man  liveth  unto  himself  alone. 

We  know  now  that  no  nation  liveth  unto  Itself  alone. 

With  the  outbreak  of  the  great  war  our  government  promptly 
proclaimed  its  strict  neutrality. 

For  more  than  two  and  a  half  years  we  maintained  this  declara- 
tion in  spite  of  multiplying  complications  and  deliberate  disregard 
of  our  national  rights. 

Under  the  leadership  and  compulsion  of  the  autocratic  and  mil- 
itaristic rulers  of  Germany,  the  central  powers,  in  their  conduct  of 
the  war  grew  more  insolent,  day  by  day,  in  defiance  of  international 
law  and  in  the  violation  of  the  most  elementary  principles  of  civili- 
zation and  humanity. 

The  appeals  and  protests  of  an  outraged  world  were  alike  in  vain. 

Peace  and  right  were  at  stake;  selfish  and  autocratic  power  the 
self-appointed  executioner. 

On  April  2nd,  1917,  the  President  of  the  United  States  declared 
before  Congress  that  "neutrality  is  no  longer  feasible  or  desirable 
where  the  peace  of  the  world  is  involved  and  the  freedom  of  its 
people,  and  the  menace  to  that  peace  and  freedom  lies  in  the  exist- 
ence of  autocratic  governments,  backed  by  organized  force  which  is 

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controlled  wholly  iby  their  will,  not  the  will  of  their  people.  We 
have  seen  the  last  of  neutrality  in  such  circumstances. 

"We  are  at  the  beginning  of  an  age  in  which  it  will  be  insisted 
that  the  same  standards  of  conduct  and  responsibility  for  wrong 
done  shall  be  observed  among  nations  and  their  governments  that 
are  observed  among  the  individual  citizens  of  civilized  states. 

"The  world  must  be  made  safe  for  Democracy. 

"Its  peace  must  be  planted  upon  the  tested  foundations  of  polit- 
ical liberty. 

"We  have  no  selfish  ends  to  serve,  we  desire  no  conquest,  no 
dominion.  We  seek  no  indemnities  for  ourselves,  no  material  com- 
pensation for  the  sacrifices  we  shall  freely  make.  We  are  but  one 
of  the  champions  of  the  rights  of  mankind.  We  shall  be  satisfied 
when  these  rights  have  been  made  as  secure  as  the  faith  and  the 
freedom  of  nations  can  make  them." 

In  concluding  this  great  message,  he  said: 

"It  is  a  fearful  thing  to  lead  this  great,  peaceful  people  into  war, 
into  the  most  terrible  and  disastrous  of  all  wars,  civilization  itself 
seeming  to  be  in  the  balance. 

"But  the  right  is  more  precious  than  peace,  and  we  shall  fight 
for  the  things  which  we  have  always  carried  nearest  our  hearts — 
for  democracy,  for  the  right  of  those  who  submit  to  authority  to 
have  a  voice  in  their  own  government,  for  the  rights  and  liberties 
of  small  nations,  for  a  universal  dominion  of  right  by  such  a  con- 
cert of  free  peoples  as  shall  bring  peace  and  safety  to  all  nations 
and  make  the  world  at  last  free. 

"To  such  a  task  we  can  dedicate  our  lives  and  our  fortune, 
everything  that  we  are  and  everything  that  we  have,  with  the  pride 
of  those  who  know  that  the  day  has  come  when  America  is  priv- 
ileged to  spend  her  blood  and  her  might  for  the  principles  that  gave 
her  birth  and  happiness  and  the  peace  which  she  has  treasured. 

"God  helping  her,  she  can  do  no  other." 

iSuch  was  our  cause. 

On  April  6,  1917,  the  Congress  declared  the  existence  of  a  state 
of  war  with  Germany,  and  the  call  went  forth,  A  Nation  to  Arms. 

The  records  of  all  the  nations  in  all  the  wars  of  the  world's  his- 
tory will  be  searched  in  vain  for  a  parallel  to  the  accomplishment 
of  our  country  in  raising,  training,  and  equipping  within  eighteen 
months  an  army  of  four  millions  of  freemen,  with  two  millions  of 
them  safely  across  three  thousand  miles  of  ocean,  not  merely  facing 
in  battle  line,  but  day  by  day  driving  back  to  new  positions  the 
seasoned  veterans  of  the  most  powerful  military  nation  of  the  old 
world. 

They  said  our  boys  could  not  fight.  The  answer  was  written  for 
all  time  at  Cantigny,  Chateau  Thierry,  Belleau  Wood,  along  the 
Marne,  across  the  Hindenburg,  at  St.  Mihiel,  and  thro'  the  tangled 
forest  of  the  Argonne,  to  the  very  gates  of  iSedan.  They  never 
failed  to  take  an  objective,  altho'  in  some  instances  requiring  sev- 


eral  efforts,  nor  to  hold  one  finally  taken,  when  ordered  so  to  do. 

Within  one  hundred  and  ten  days  after  the  first  engagement  of 
units  of  our  Army,  the  tide  of  battle  had  turned  and  the  first  and 
last  world  war  had  been  victoriously  ended. 

Excluding  students  enrolled  in  the  Student  Army  Training  Corps 
and  in  special  detachments  trained  upon  the  University  campus, 
1,663  men  who  had  taken  regular  courses  in  the  University  of  Geor- 
gia answered  their  country's  call  and  laid  their  all  upon  its  altar. 
Of  these,  forty-two  made  the  supreme  sacrifice. 

These  brothers  of  ours  were  neither  mercenaries  nor  conscripts. 

They  loved  liberty;  they  loved  their  country.  They  "were  patriots 
by  heredity  and  by  inspirational  training. 

Their  forefathers  had  helped  to  implant  upon  this  continent  a 
new  nation,  and  to  ibuild  here  a  structure  in  which  liberty  might 
safely  dwell  forever. 

■In  the  halls  of  this  revered  institution,  chartered  by  the  state 
almost  with  its  own  birth  and  dedicated  to  the  education  of  its 
sons  that  they  might  better  serve,  these  young  men  had  been  trained 
in  an  atmosphere  of  patriotic  service  and  historic  traditions. 

A  soldier  boy  of  France  lay  upon  a  hospital  cot  grievously 
wounded.  iHis  right  arm  had  been  torn  and  shattered  by  a  German 
shell. 

As  he  came  to  consciousness  after  its  removal,  the  sympathetic 
surgeon  standing,  by,  moved  to  pity  as  he  looked  upon  his  maimed 
form,  said,  "My  boy,  I  am  sorry  you  had  to  lose  your  arm." 

The  spirit  of  France  flashed  into  the  boy's  eyes  and  raising  his 
head  he  answered,  "Doctor,  I  did  not  LOSE  my  arm,  I  GAVE  it — 
to  France,"  and  as  his  head  sank  wearily  upon  the  pillow,  he  whis- 
pered, "My  France." 

These  boys  of  ours  whose  memories  we  hold  sacred  and  will 
honor  so  long  as  sacrificial  service  is  counted  glorious,  did  not 
iLO'SE  their  lives — they  GAVE  them — to  their  country — that  right- 
eousness in  the  world,  through  it,  might  be  enthroned  for  all  time. 

It  is  said  that  upon  a  certain  occasion  in  ancient  Rome  in  a  gath- 
ering of  noble  women  at  the  home  of  Cornelia,  a  wealthy  com- 
panion lady  made  show  of  her  priceless  jewels,  and  finally  entreated 
her  hostess  that  she  afford  her  friends  a  sight  of  hers. 

The  noble  Cornelia  sent  for  her  two  sons  and  presenting  them  to 
the  assembled  company,  said:     "These  are  my  jewels." 

With  like  pride  and  love  their  Alma  Mater  today  presents  her 
patriot  sons.     They  are  her  jewels. 

Heroism  never  dies,  and  their  careers  of  service  and  sacrifice, 
illustrating  and  incarnating  the  spirit  and  teachings  of  this  ven- 
erable institution,  will  inspire  and  provoke  to  higher  endeavor  the 
coming  generations  of  students  who  shall  walk  this  campus  and  fill 
these  halls.  Unless  this  be  true,  what  we  say  and  do  here  today 
would  matter  little,  and  their  sacrifices  have  been  in  vain. 


They — each,  did  a  man's  part  in  the  great  endeavor;  they  are 
dead;  they  rest  beyond  the  sunset's  glow. 

They  have  left  to  us  the  high  and  solemn  duty  of  seeing  that 
since  the  victory  is  won,  the  cause  for  which  they  died  shall  not  be 
betrayed. 

"If  ye  break  faith  with  us  who  die 
We  shall  not  sleep 
Tho'  poppies  blow 
In  Flanders'  fields." 

In  this  solemn  hour,  in  this  temple  dedicated  in  the  name  of  the 
Prince  of  Peace,  it  is  our  privilege  as  it  should  be  our  high  pur- 
pose to  consecrate  ourselves  afresh  to  the  cause  for  which  these 
boys  fought  and  died. 

The  battle  has  ended;  the  cannon  are  silent;  the  fire  of  rifle  and 
machine  gun  has  ceased — but  the  contest  is  still  on. 

National  greed  and  selfishness,  the  lust  for  territory  and  the 
desire  for  power,  are  still  existent  and  notwithstanding  the  cruel 
suffering  and  immense  sacrifices  brought  upon  the  world  by  their 
■past  orgies,  evidences  of  their  existence  and  renewed  intriguing 
are  seen  even  at  the  peace  table  at  Versailles. 

These  were  the  things  that  moved  militaristic  Germany  to  war 
against  the  world. 

They  are  the  things  which  have  provoked  wars  throughout  the 
history  of  the  human  race. 

They  are  the  things  which  trample  upon  right,  violate  law,  despise 
liberty  and  outrage  humanity. 

They  are  the  things  to  defeat  which  our  boys  crossed  the  seas 
and  died. 

To  allow  them  now,  after  all  the  bloodshed  and  suffering  and 
sacrifice  of  the  past  five  years,  to  reappear  and  resume  sway  in  the 
governments  of  the  world  would  be  a  crime,  the  adequate  punish- 
ment of  which  would  call  for  the  exercise  of  every  power  of  God 
Almighty  Himself. 

The  peoples  of  the  world — the  common  masses  of  mankind,  are 
sick  of  war.  They  will  have  no  more  like  that  through  which  we 
have  just  passed. 

They  purpose  to  uproot  and  destroy  every  seed  which  can  again 
provoke  it.  This  will  be  done  only  when  righteousness  is  recog- 
nized by  governments  as  a  rule  of  conduct;  when  a  code  of  laws  is 
provided  clearly  defining  and  prescribing  righteous  rules  of  conduct 
between  nations,  and  when  there  is  established  by  concerted  action 
of  the  civilized  nations  of  the  world  a  duly  empowered  interna- 
tional tribunal,  with  instrumentalities  and  methods  for  compelling 
the  observance  of  such  laws  and  rules. 

Three  years  ago  I  had  the  honor  of  delivering  the  baccalaureate 
address  to  the  Class  of  1916.  Some  of  the  young  men  of  that  class 
are  in  France  today.     Some  are  in  this  audience,  at  least  one  of 

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whom  I  know  shed  his  blood  on  French  soil.  Three  gave  their  all 
in  the  service  of  country. 

In  that  address  I  said:  "The  problem  of  the  world  is  the  preser- 
vation of  the  rights  and  liberties  of  independent  nations,  and  the 
everlasting  establishment  of  righteousness  amjong  nations,  and 
peace  on  earth.  This  great  country  of  ours  has  and  should  have  a 
responsibility  and  a  part  in  the  solution  of  this  world  problem. 

"I  am  not  unmindful  of  our  ancient  policy,  adhered  to  since  its 
first  declaration  by  Washington,  of  avoiding  alliances  with  other 
nations,  particularly  those  of  the  old  world.  The  avoidance  of 
entangling  alliances  should  not,  however,  lead  us  into  the  adoption 
of  a  theory  of  isolation,  and  monastic  separation  from  all  part  and 
interest  in  world  affairs.  Such  isolation  is  unwise  and  inexpedient, 
if  not  impossible 

"We  must  recognize  more  fully  than  we  do  that  the  United 
States  is  a  member  of  the  great  family  of  nations,  and  be  pre- 
pared to  meet  the  demands  and  the  crises  arising  out  of  such  mem- 
bership and  kinship." 

Within  ten  months  after  these  words  were  spoken  we  were  taking 
part  in  the  great  struggle. 

It  was  a  glorious  part,  made  so  by  the  endurance  and  bravery  of 
our  young  citizen  armies. 

Having  gone  thus  far  at  such  cost,  shall  we  falter  now,  or  aban- 
don our  task? 

To  do  so  would  be  to  betray  humanity;  would  be  to  make  vain 
the  sacrifices  and  to  dishonor  the  memories  of  70,000  American 
boys  who  sleep  on  the  glory  fields  of  France. 

A  few  months  ago  the  French  Chamber  of  Deputies  declared  in 
formal  resolution,  "President  Wilson  has  deserved  well  of  hu- 
manity." 

The  French  Chamber  spoke  the  simple  truth. 

For  six  long,  weary  months  we  have  watched  this  great  American 
President,  this  friend  of  humanity,  standing  almost  alone,  con- 
tending with  all  the  sinister  forces  of  national  greed,  selfishness,  and 
jealousies,  in  patient,  tireless,  skillful  effort  to  write  in  enduring 
form  the  principles  for  which  America  fought  and  to  firmly  secure 
for  all  posterity  that  peace  for  which  her  sons  so  gloriously  died. 

I  know  not  how  you  feel,  but  as  for  me,  my  very  blood  boils  with 
indignation  when  I  see  the  miserable,  jealous  play  of  petty  politics 
in  our  own  land  and  the  carping,  nagging  criticism  which  seeks,  for 
partisan  purposes,  to  defeat  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  humanity  and 
to  destroy  that  which  has  been  born  out  of  such  travail  and  sac- 
rifice. 

I  know  not  what  the  end  will  be  of  all  this  plotting  and  intrigue, 
•but  I  predict  woe  unto  that  politician  or  political  party  which  shall 
stand  in  the  way  and  hinder  the  world's  high  endeavor  to  insure 
forever  the  freedom  of  mankind. 

It  was  for  this  our  fellow  alumni  gave  their  all,  and  as  we  are 


gathered  here  today  to  do  honor  to  their  memories,  let  us  kindle 
anew  the  fires  of  patriotism  and  reconsecrate  ourselves  to  the  com- 
pletion of  their  glorious  undertaking. 

We  are  all  familiar  with  that  splendid  epic  by  Col.  McCrae,  "In 
Flanders  Fields." 

Have  you  read  the  eloquent  response  penned  by  one  of  our  num- 
ber, Robert  W.  'Lillard  of  the  (Class  of  1899? 

"Rest  ye  in  peace,  ye  Flanders  dead; 

The  fight  that  ye  so  bravely  led 

We've  taken  up.     And  we  will  keep 

True  faith  with  you  who  lie  asleep, 

With  each  a  cross  to  mark  his  bed, 

And  poppies  blowing  overhead, 

Where  once  his  own  life  blood  ran  red; 
In  Flanders  Fields. 
"Fear  not  that  ye  have  died  for  naught, 

The  torch  ye  threw  to  us  we  caught, 

Ten  million  hands  will  hold  it  high, 

And  Freedom's  light  shall  never  die! 

We've  learned  the  lesson  that  ye  taught 
In  Flanders  Fields." 


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